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title: נְקֵבָה — female · The Tanakh dictionary
description: נְקֵבָה (5347), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 22 times: female. BDB 1906: n.f. female. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# נְקֵבָה

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«נְקֵבָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **female** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 22 times · **Key:** 5347 · **BDB:** נְקֵבָה

### Glosses

female (13); a.female (8); \[is\].female (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

female [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5347/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. female [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5347/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. female (perforata (BaNB 166); so Thes and most; \> another view in Schwally ZAW xi (1891), 181 f.; Idiot. 57; NH = BH; Aramaic נוּקְבָּא, נוּקְבְּתָא, ܢܶܩܒܳܐ, ܢܶܩܒܬܳܐ );—always abs. נ׳ Je 31:22 + 21 times (all Pent., and all P except Dt 4:16): woman (or female child) Je 31:22 (opp. גֶּבֶר), Gn 1:27; 5:2; Lv 12:5, 7; 15:33; 27:4, 5, 6, 7; Nu 5:3 (all opp. זָכָר), Nu 31:15. female animal Gn 6:19; 7:3, 9, 16; Lv 3:1, 6 (all opp. זָכָר), 4:28, 32; 5:6.—Dt 4:16 (opp. זָכָר) may include both women and animals.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 22 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «נְקֵבָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5347/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Numbers 31:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.31.15/)

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וַיֹּ֥אמֶר אֲלֵיהֶ֖ם מֹשֶׁ֑ה הַֽחִיִּיתֶ֖ם כָּל־נְקֵבָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.said to them Moses have you.let.live? every female

*JPS 1917:* And Moses said unto them: 'Have ye saved all the women alive?

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[Leviticus 27:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.27.4/)

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וְאִם־נְקֵבָ֖ה הִ֑וא וְהָיָ֥ה עֶרְכְּךָ֖ שְׁלֹשִׁ֥ים שָֽׁקֶל׃

*Word for word:* and if \[is\].female she and it.will.be valuation your thirty shekel\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* And if it be a female, then thy valuation shall be thirty shekels.

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